Posted on 02/27/2023 3:57:18 PM PST by John W
New York(CNN) Rupert Murdoch, the chairman of Fox Corporation, acknowledged in a deposition taken by Dominion Voting Systems that some Fox News hosts endorsed false claims that the 2020 election was stolen.
Murdoch's remarks were made public in a legal filing as part of Dominion's $1.6 billion lawsuit against Fox News.
In his deposition, Murdoch rejected that the right-wing talk network as an entity endorsed former President Donald Trump's election lies. But Murdoch conceded that Sean Hannity, Jeanine Pirro, Maria Bartiromo, and former host Lou Dobbs promoted the falsehood about the presidential contest being stolen.
"Some of our commentators were endorsing it,," Murdoch said, according to the filing, when asked about the talk hosts' on-air positions about the election. "I would have liked us to be stronger in denouncing it, in hindsight," he added.
The filing also revealed that Murdoch referred to some of Trump's 2020 election lies as "bulls**t and damaging."
In a Monday statement, Fox News assailed Dominion.
"Dominion's lawsuit has always been more about what will generate headlines than what can withstand legal and factual scrutiny," the network said, "as illustrated by them now being forced to slash their fanciful damages demand by more than half a billion dollars after their own expert debunked its implausible claims."
"Their summary judgment motion took an extreme, unsupported view of defamation law that would prevent journalists from basic reporting and their efforts to publicly smear Fox for covering and commenting on allegations by a sitting President of the United States should be recognized for what it is: a blatant violation of the First Amendment," the network added.
The messages showed that Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham brutally mocked lies being pushed by former President Donald Trump's camp asserting that the election was rigged.
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Re: 38 - Once Mike Lindell makes the packet captures public, it will all come into focus.
Maybe.
Okay, no.
Mike, we’ve been waiting for over two years for you to back up your claims. Stop jackassin’ and make the packet captures public.
One of the biggest lies is that Fox News is a “right-wing” channel.
Biden revolutionized campaigning (from the basement), yet absolutely no one is interested in the specifics of this ground-breaking campaigning method. We should expect more of the same in 2024, since it worked so efficiently.
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The government says that Dominion voting machines weren’t hacked.
The government has also said that Dominion voting machines have nine vulnerabilities that could be used by hackers.
So long as FNC pointed out that the machines could have been hacked and not asserted that they were hacked, they shouldn’t have any trouble in a fair court.
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Ignoring the trolls is a good idea.
“The messages showed that Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham brutally mocked lies being pushed by former President Donald Trump’s camp asserting that the election was rigged...”
Oh my, really???
So they did that to keep their jobs, or are they really that ignorant of all the facts?
Biden and the Deep State executed a successful coup d’etat in wresting the White House from the rightful winner, President Trump.
That is the most conclusive website that has the facts that prove the 2020 election was stolen.
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